Analyst - Sponsor Coverage

Rado Bank • New York, NY

11h • Hybrid

About The Position

Join our dynamic team as a Sponsor Coverage banker, where you'll forge strategic partnerships, navigate complex financial landscapes, and act as the spider at the center of the Rabobank web to help deliver bespoke solutions to our financial sponsor clients. Working in the Sponsor Coverage team offers the opportunity to collaborate with all product teams within the bank to offer specialized solutions to financial sponsor clients. Our team is fast paced, ambitious and operates with a One Rabobank mentality. As an Analyst, Sponsor Coverage you will be successful supporting senior Officers in developing and leveraging relationships with Financial Sponsors to optimally position Rabobank for business. This includes assisting in originating deals through consistent and intense coverage. This support is through preparing pitch books, modelling and tracking market developments and joining client calls. In addition, the role is involved during the initial stages of the financing and/or M&A execution process analysing opportunities and structuring financing transactions. This role will also build and maintain relations with clients at a junior level. In addition, the role works closely with the other product teams to identify and generate opportunities for the team and positions the bank for success. The role helps to continuously support and implement the local strategy and help achieve business objectives.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or 2+ years relevant experience
• Ability to travel regionally, up to 15% of the time
• Legally authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis

Responsibilities

• Generating ideas for Sponsors and implementing strategy
• Jointly responsible for generating ideas translating the adopted strategy into a (team) business plan comprising activities and actions to be taken in order to achieve goals
• Contributes towards the coordination and ensures the proper execution of the business plan
• Helps drive the local SC business strategy in alignment with the global AF&SC strategy
• Actively builds, broadens, applies and shares professional networks and insights
• Actively engaging in certain F&A subsector discussions and, in time, becoming a point person within SC for one or several subsectors and expected to be an active contributor to subsector group discussions and strategizing regardless of whether or not certain topics are of immediate benefit to sponsors
• Supporting the Coverage Officers with maintaining, broadening and deepening targeted sponsor relationships, in addition to building up its own relationships
• Responsible for a structured and consistent approach of financial sponsor coverage and planning
• Drives, develops and maintains relationships with financial sponsors and prospects in order to generate leads in an early stage
• Execution on the design, and composition of materials for strategic pitches
• Serves as a trusted and reliable partner who looks after his relationships in a responsible way
• Captures client related activities and actions clearly in the according systems
• Support and contribute to develop relationship plans and develop strategy for Financial Sponsors and works collaboratively with M&A, LL, Sector Banking/Corporate Finance, FAR and CM
• Speaking up when identifying an opportunity or solution across a wide variety of complex client needs
• Translates these opportunities into building attractive and clear pitches and financial models in support of a Corporate Finance Officer
• Seeks to pro-actively improve the efficiency of internal processes and internal cooperation
• Champions internal cross-departmental and cross border cooperation
• Challenges the way of working and comes with solutions to improve efficiency or having a bigger impact as sponsor coverage

Benefits

• Flexible hybrid working model
• Medical, Dental and Vision plan coverages effective on your date of hire
• Multiple plan options and a full network of providers for health
• 401(k) plan participation on your date of hire
• 50% match of the first 6% you contribute to your 401(k) plan for US Employees
• Additional 3% of your eligible pay in Safe Harbor contribution to 401(k)
• Up to 3% in annual Discretionary Profit Sharing contributions to 401(k)
• Generous paid time off program: up to 20 days of vacation time, 5 days of additional time off plus 7 sick days and 11 US holidays annually (based on hire date during the calendar year)
• Dollars for Doers program
• Helping Hands program
• Gift Matching programs
• Healthcare benefits
• Parental leave
• Possible discretionary bonuses

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level